Cookie Monster here ...
After discovering that some of my favorite, bestest, most needed cookies
had been filched by some creature real or virtual, I decided that mabye
the cookie jar was getting too stuffed and it was time to clear out the
broken unwanted stuff and random crumbs. Besides, it's a lot easier to
do now that the Arachne home page banner ads aren't feeding in 4 or a
half-dozen new cookies each time Arachne is started.
By now I've learned a lot about the cookies I absolutely think I want to
keep, but as I was looking for what belonged in the garbage I ran across
one source of cookie-jar-overstuffing that could be made "all better" by
some genius software developer out there.
I speak of the ASPSESSION cookie.
While I am involved in that particular delve through digital land, I
know the ASPSESSION cookie is very important to keep me & the pages I
want to see separated from everyone else. But in turn, my brain started
to wonder, either the ASPSESSION cookie would hang around worthlessly
forever OR else the ASPSESSION cookie might actually screw up the next
time I went to visit the site, sending it's moldy crumbs into the
digibrain and jambing up the works. Needless to say, I decided on not
keeping any ASPSESSION cookies, even if they appeared to be mold-free
right now.
And that is when I decided that maybe "Things Could Be Made Better"(tm)
if some supergenius out there invented an optional "cookie duster and
cleanup manager." Maybe, if it were well enough designed, I could call
the cookie duster routine up and have it get rid of every ASPSESSION
line in the file. And, as I write this, I'm dreaming a bit more --
maybe the cookie jar cleaner could give me an interface where I tell it
"anything that contains [linkexchange] should be tossed" (and any number
of bannerad cookies I've run across). And maybe even nicer, the cookie
jar cleaner could have a list of "bad guys that don't need to be here"
and I could have the option of running that list through automatically,
editing the list, adding to the list, or even changing my mind and
taking someone off the list.
And so I, Cookie Monster, am tossing out the challenge. It doesn't even
have to be part of Arachne ... it would quite possibly be very popular
with other entities who might be able to run in "a DOS box, whatever
that is" and clean out all the moldy cumby crap acquired by NS or IE or
other such programs in the cookie file.
I know it's a bit early for holiday shopping, but such a little gem
could be released to the world on Independence Day quite appropriately.
Thank you for your support ...
CM
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
